Word: dynastics
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...young Emperor continued his Chinese lessons, studied Annamite chronicles, browsed through French history, literature and economics. He was especially fond of books on Henry IV, the dynast from Navarre who began the Bourbon rule in France with the cynical remark, "Paris is worth a Mass," and the demagogic slogan, "Every family should have a fowl in the pot on Sunday." Bao Dai put his money in Swiss banks (and thereby saved it from World War II's reverses), collected stamps, practiced tennis with Champion Henri Cochet, learned ping-pong, dressed in tweeds and flannels, vacationed in the Pyrenees, scented...
Married. Gwendoline de Rothschild, 21, brunette Barnard College student, younger daughter of the late Baron Alphonse de Rothschild of Vienna, great-granddaughter of Banking Dynast Solomon de Rothschild; and H. Roland Hoguet, 27, socialite meat salesman (Armour) ; in Manhattan...
Died. Henry Ford, 83, industrial dynast, Yankee mechanic who made Detroit synonymous with mass production and whose famed Model T gave the U.S. good roads, bad jokes and a new way of life; in Dearborn...
...probably America's best-known priest, with an audience of millions for his Sunday preaching on NBC's Catholic Hour and a fan mail of 3,000 to 6,000 letters a Sunday. Among his other noted proselytes: the late Heywood Broun, politico Horace A. Mann, motor dynast Henry Ford...
Married. Pfc. Derick Vanderbilt Webb, 30, fifth-generation descendant of famed dynast Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt; and Elizabeth Bigelow Canfield, 19, young est child of the late socialite Manhattan lawyer George Folger Canfield; in Manhattan...